The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-09-01
Niagara Falls.
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

which tourists travel to seat least
of all those which have seen.-I am
inclined to give the palm to the Falls
of Niagara. In the catalogue of such
sights intend to include all buildings.
pictures, statues and wonders of art
made by mems hands. and also all
beauties of nature prepared by the
Creator for the delight Of His creatures.
This is long word; but rs far as my
taste aud judgement 60. it is jus fed.
know no other one thing so beautiful,
so glorious and so powerful would
not by tn be understood as saying
that traveller wishing to do the best
with his time should first of all places
seek N agara In visiting Florence he
NAV learn almost all that modern art
can teach. At Rome he will be brought
to understand the cold hearts, correct
eyes and cruel ambition of the old Latin
race. In Switzerland he will surround
himself with flood OF grandeur and
loneliness, and fill himself. if he be
capable of such filling, with flood of
romance. The tropics will unfold to
him all that vegetation in its greatest
richness can produce. In Paris he will
find the supreme of polish. the ne ptsts
ultra of warn sh according to the
worlds capab lily of vanishing; and in
London he will find the supreme OF
power, the ne p as ultra Of work &C
cord ng to the worlds capability OF
working. Any one of such Journeys
NAV be more valuable to man-nay.
any one such journey must be more
valuable to a man. than visit to Nj
arara. At Niagara there is that fall OF
water alone. But that is more grace
full than G otto's tower. more noble
than the Apollo. The peaks of the
Alps are not so astounding in their
solitude. The valleys of the Blue
maintains in Jamaica are less green.
The finished glaze of life in Paris is
less iuvariable; and the full tide OF
trade round the Bunk of England is not
so inexorably powerful.
That the waters of Lake Erie have
come down in their courses from
the broad basins of Lake Michigan,
Lake Superior and Lake Huron; that
these waters fall into Lake Ontario by
the short and rapid river Niagara. and
that the Falls of Niagara are made by
sudden break in the level of this
rapid river. is probably known to all
who will read this book. All the wa
tiers of these huge northern inland seas
run over that breach in the rocky bot
tom of the stream; and thence 1t
comes that the flow is unceasing in its
grandeur. and that no eye can preceive
difference in the weight or sound. or
violence of the fall. whether it be VS.
tied in the drouth of autumn, amidst
the storms of winter, or after the
melting of other worlds of ice In
the days of the early summer. How
many cataracts does the habitual tour
list visit at which the waters fail himP
But at Niagara the waters never fail.
There it thunders over its lodges in a
volume that never ceases and is never
dimnished;-a it has done from time
previous to the life of men, and as it
will till tens of thousands of years
shall see the rocky bed of the river
worn away. back to the upper lake
1t has been said that it matters much
from what point the falls are first seen.
but to this l demur. 1t matters.
think, very little, or not at all Let
the visitor first see it all. and learn tho
whereabouts of every point. SO as to
understand his own position and that
of the waters; and then having done
that in the way of business, let him
proceed to enjoyment doubt wheth-
er it be not the best to do this with all
sightseeing 1 am quite sure that it
is the way in which acquaintance may
be best and most pleasantly made with
new picture.
The Falls are, as l have said, made
by sudden breach in the level of the
river. All cataracts are, l presume,
made by such breaches; but generally
the waters do not fall precipitously as
they do at Niagara, and never else
where, as far as the world yet knows,
has breach so sudden been made in q
river carrying in its channel such or
any approach to such body of water.
Up above the falls, for more than q
mile. the waters leap and burst over
rapids, as though conscious of the
destiny that awaits them. Here the
river is very broad, and comparatively
shallow, but from shore to shore it
frets itself into little torrents, and be-
gins to assume the majesty of its power.
Looking at it even here. in the ex-
panse which forms itself over the
greater fall, one feels sure that no
strongest swimmer could have chance
OF saving himself, if fate had cast him
in even among those petty whirlpools.
The waters, though so broken in their
descent, are deliciously green. This
color, as seen early in the morning. or
just as the sun has set. is so bright as
to give the place (one) of its chiefest
charms This Will be best seen from the
further end of the island-Goat island,
as it is called. which, as the reader
will understand, divides the river i'm
med ateIy above the falls. Indeed the
island is part of that precipitously
broken ledge over which the river
tumbles; and no doubt in process of
time will be worn away and covered
with water. The time, however, will
be very long. In the meanwhile it is
perhaps mile round, and is covered
thickly with mber. At the upper end
of the island the waters are divided,
and coming down in two courses, each
over its own rapids, form two separate
falls. The bridge BY which the island
is entered is hundred yards or more
above the smaller fall The waters
here have been tunred by the island.